You arrive on a TRF island with a tribe with odd customs. The tribe consists of 1000 people, all aligned to the light or dark side. Their religion forbids them from knowing their own alignment, or even to discuss the Force. However, each resident can (and does) sense the alignment of all other residents, but has no way of discovering his or her own. If a person ever discovers their own alignment, then they must commit suicide at noon in front of all other islanders. All the people are perfectly logical and perfectly adherent to the customs, and they all know that each other perfectly logical and perfectly adherent to the customs (and they all know that they all know that each other is perfectly logical and perfectly adherent to the customs, and so forth).
["highly logical" in this case means that anything that can possibly be deduced purely through logic will immediately be known to the person]
Of the 1000 islanders, it turns out that 100 of them are dark siders and 900 of them are light siders, although the islanders are not initially aware of these numbers (each of them can of course only see 999 of the 1000 people).
One day, a CSP member visits the island and wins the complete trust of the TRF people.
One evening, the member address the entire tribe to thank them for their hospitality.
However, not knowing the customs, they make the mistake of mentioning the Force, and says "how unusual it is to see another dark-sider out here in the TRF".
What effect, if anything, does this faux pas have on the tribe?
This is a logic puzzle. You should answer what happens to the tribe, and explain your reasoning. Entries graded on how close your conclusion is to the true solution, and then by clearest explanation. If you have absolutely no idea, a comedy solution is also acceptable.
1st place
James Malum
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2nd place
Mako Henymory
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3rd place
Wagglehorn
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